Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Pope

We applaud those in Congress who have refused to let drilling proponents manipulate them and the democratic process. Although there are some still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, the drilling lobby and their allies will be hard-pressed to keep Arctic drilling in the budget knowing that it is dead on arrival in the House.

Lane Evans

At a time when the Nation was at its lowest point, this generation dropped their individual pursuits to form the most potent military and powerful civilian engine the world has ever known. American, fighting and working together, as well as with our allies around the world, overcame the tremendous dangers of that time. We freed the world from the shackle of totalitarianism and made freedom ring.

Bob Dole

America and its allies and friends around the world can no longer tolerate Saddam's repeated attempts to erode the restraints that have been placed on his regime, and to violently reassert his authority.

Jonathan Turley

For many, the recent disclosure of massive warrantless surveillance programs of all citizens by the Obama administration has brought back memories of George Orwell's '1984.' Another Orwell book seems more apt as the White House and its allies try to contain the scandal: 'Animal Farm.'

Timothy Murphy

We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.

Gene Luen Yang

The Boxer Rebellion is a war that was fought on Chinese soil in the year 1900. The Europeans, the Japanese and their Chinese Christian allies were on one side. On the other were poor, starving, illiterate Chinese teenagers whom the Europeans referred to as the Boxers.

Mauricio Romero

Once the incident became public Uribe needed to take this step in order to combat charges that he and his allies are linked with the paramilitaries.

Richard Holbrooke

Dayton is a demonstration that American leadership is indispensable. But leadership means cooperation with allies and pressure on adversaries. Neither rule was followed in Iraq , with disastrous consequences.

C. Robert Kehler

Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.

Dean Acheson

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Luis Walter Alvarez

At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.

Madeleine Albright

One of my trips was to meet with the Gulf Cooperation Council with all the Saudi foreign ministers, and when we started the meeting I said 'Perhaps you've noticed that I'm not dressed the same as my predecessors", but no-one had a problem and I was never treated with anything other than respect...So I did not have problems with that, interestingly enough.

Christian Toksvig

We write with the cooperation of celebrities. We don't just write about them, we talk to them.

Strobe Talbott

would be an obstacle to cooperation on other issues.

Scott Charbo

This initiative is a tremendous undertaking and requires the collaboration and cooperation of all our federal, state, tribal and local government partners.

Phil Anderson

There were a number of difficult issues we had to work through. Providing meaningful fishing opportunities wouldn't be possible without strong cooperation between the state, the tribes and our constituents.

Detlev Mehlis

There were some problems, but I am optimistic that these problems can be solved, because they will have to be solved, because without this cooperation, we will not have the full picture.

Detlev Mehlis

It remains to be seen whether the Syrian cooperation will be in full and without any conditions.

Geoffrey Dennis

We have seen a contemporaneous slowdown of the Mexican economy with that of the U.S., but it has not been disastrous for Mexico,

Clare Short

Yes but the tragedy is Iraq is a disastrous mess; 10,000 Iraqis have died, American troops are dying, some of our troops have died.

Lee Brown

This is the most disastrous effect on transportation I've seen, even more than the hurricane (Alicia) in the '80s, ... I-10 looks like a swimming pool for four-wheelers.

Ben Holmes

It's a very tough environment for drug approvals right now. It might have been as disastrous without the changes.

Mark DiCamillo

The thing that's most striking to me is the impact that Schwarzenegger himself is having on his own initiatives. It's got to be disastrous from the governor's standpoint.

Calvin Ayre

It would be disastrous for the international online industry. It would be the worst thing that could happen. I think it's 20 years out.

Andrew Coburn

Unfortunately, we've seen this over and over. We have these disastrous storms and people say, 'Oh my God this is terrible,' and then within a few years those memories fade.

O. Singh

I don't think I've ever had back-to-back doubles. I was happy I hung in there and didn't give up. After the disastrous holes, I played pretty well outside of that. It could have been much worse.

Troy Murphy

We were looking to win four out of five on this trip and get back in the playoff hunt, and so far it's been disastrous for us.

Robbie Burroughs

About the same time, the people in the pickup truck realized they were being followed and it turned into a pursuit.

Scott Moody

A lot of the newest wireless technologies come from the United States with all the entrepreneurial companies, ... But the market that always uses technology first is Japan. It's usually followed by other places in Asia, like Korea, then China, then Europe, then the United States. It always starts in Japan first.

Gerald Lefcourt

This is a man who followed his dream.

Dale Kunkel

It's not surprising that this format has worked internationally. What's surprising is that others haven't followed their model.

David Flanagan

There's a process, the same one we've followed in the past.

Sara Stern

It's a tribute to the young lady who told her mother and the mother who told the principal. We followed all the procedures.

Stewart Davis

I took down the other signs by Friday; I followed the city's request. I just put up another banner. This starts a new 14 days.

Adrian McKinty

I studied law at Warwick University, then philosophy at Oxford. I met my wife Leah there. She is American, so I followed her to New York.

Carl Safina

As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph.D.

Asne Seierstad

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

Bernard Kerik

I understand, probably more than anyone, what a threat Iraq was and the people that threatened Iraq was. I was beneath the towers on September 11th when they fell. And I -- again, I just -- I want to thank the President for the honor in allowing me to go there, because I lost 23 people. I wear this -- this memorial band for the 23 I lost.

Bob Schaffer

I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.

Carl Levin

The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist

Carl Levin

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

Kofi Annan

would be insufficient to address, even as a temporary measure, all the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people.

Dennis Kucinich

Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

Dennis Miller

I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac.

Edward Kennedy

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Chris Christie

The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.

Chinua Achebe

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Brian Eno

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

Natalie Massenet

For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.

Chris Harper

We're so young that when they start to press, we think that means we need to speed up.

Jennifer Rodriguez

Wow! I'm really touched. This means a lot to me.

Sathya Baba

Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. 

Jimmy Smith

We're more settled. A new regime means changes, and things have settled down.

Rob Cosby

They don't quit. They don't want to quit playing and neither do I.

Pat Gelsinger

It really is something that neither one of us could have done on their own.

Jacques Chirac

A new resolution is neither useful nor necessary,

Chris Smith

Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.

Kevin Cathcart

Tragedy does not discriminate, and neither should relief agencies.

Charles Ferguson Smith

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Said Nursi

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

Dave Reynolds

One thing about them is neither one will give up. They're tenacious, they really are.

Mark Richt

A team that can put pressure on the quarterback without blitzing I'm more worried about than a team that blitzes. Blitzing teams are vulnerable to the big play.

Nate Gallick

As much pressure as I probably should be feeling, I really don't feel any pressure.

Mike Childress

It's just like a pressure cooker at home.

Greg Brunner

They don't have a lot of pressure on them. More of the pressure is on us.

Lelani Gordon

They were just relentless in their pressure and there wasn't anything we could do about it. And everything (Cannon) threw up went in.

Brian Meneely

They turned up the pressure after that happened. We started to stand and watch.

Shannon Glidwell

They put so much pressure on us. I think they out-played us for a big part of the game.

Brian Tempest

The year '05 was a tough year. Pricing pressure in the US has been brutal.

O. Henry

There was pressure, but I tried not to think about it. I just tried to go out and play hard. The pressure was there, but you try not to think about it.

Brian Robertson

There's an old rule in politics: If you're explaining, you're losing.

Andrew Walpole

Vaughan is ruled out. He is going home.

Antony Starr

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

Patrick Leahy

I want an end to this thing. But where are we? Do we know what the rules are going to be?

James Thomson

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year.

Peter Ueberroth

The rules have changed, ... The old thing of 'getting in line,' that's gone.

Harry White

The rules have changed, post-9/11. We have seen some real tightening of security and for all the right reasons.

Ryan Horn

The rule is if you take something out, put something back.

Antwaan Randle

It was a bonehead play. The team rule is: If you're going to try that play, you'd better make it.